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Darren Bader HORNY DIP by Charlie Finch May 7, 2012
Much as
Marcel Duchamp 's
Nude Descending a Staircase was the icon of the 1913 Armory Show, Darren Bader's
Guacamole French Horn is the centerpiece of last weekend's Frieze Art Fair on Randall's Island. Visitors to the Andrew Kreps Gallery booth there could dip their chips into an endless supply of guacamole, gurgling out of a gorgeous (and expensive) French horn.
...more
Feb. 1, 2011
Jan. 26, 2011
THE BIG FRIEZE
London's Frieze Art Fair is not slated to dock in New York until May 2012, but its press minions are already hitting the streets.
Jan. 6, 2011
New ArtOVERLOAD
Stonehenge, the Beach Boys, and new art by Erik den Breejen at Freight & Volume and Janet Malcolm at Lorie Bookstein Fine Art.
Dec. 14, 2011
Oct. 25, 2011
OCCUPIED!
The problem with Occupied Wall Street is lack of imagination. Herewith, some suggestions.
Aug. 24, 2011
GATSBY AT 86
The ostentation of the super-rich, the core of F. Scott Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby , is still with us.
Aug. 8, 2011
WINKLEMANIA UP CLOSE
Minor art-world phenomenon Ed Winkleman, representative of most "second-tier" New York galleries, discusses the current state of dealer affairs and his hopes for the future.
Aug. 4, 2011
STEWED AND KEEFED Life, Keith Richards’ autobiography, gets down to the “don't-give-a-shit” inflections that have endeared Richards to guitar heroes everywhere.
Aug. 2, 2011
SAVE THE GALLERIES!
Pop-up exhibitions like “What Works” at ArtStar on Chrystie Street prove that galleries are here to stay -- as long as they keep
showing art to sell art.
Aug. 1, 2011
THE SAVAGE STREET
South African graffiti artist Faith47 and street sculptor Dal's spiritual, visually conservative art might be the antidote to street-art phobia.
June 10, 2011
Art in ChelseaDAYCOCK
Feats of complex engineering in Tatlin and Russian Constructivism at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Alice Aycock and E.V. Day at Salomon Contemporary.
May 6, 2011
GO ASK ALŸS
See Francis Alÿs steal creative tropes from just about anyone in his new show at the Museum of Modern Art.
Feb. 3, 2011
ROCCO MUST GO
Broadway mega-producer Rocco Landesman is selling out his constituency at the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dec. 20, 2010
SILENT MOVIE
At MoMA, Andy Warhol’s
Eat ,
Sleep ,
Blow Job ,
Kiss and other films are no more than magnificent paintings.
Nov. 4, 2010
Sept. 17, 2010
Sept. 7, 2010
Aug. 3, 2010
June 30, 2010
June 25, 2010
June 15, 2010
June 1, 2010
May 7, 2010
Apr. 19, 2010
Mar. 22, 2010
SENTRIES OF SECURITY by Charlie Finch
Antony Gormley’s
Event Horizon at Madison Square Park in Manhattan.
Mar. 19, 2010
MR. ED by Charlie Finch
Ed Paschke becomes his own American icon.
Mar. 11, 2010
THE MOUNTAIN OF ART by Charlie Finch
If you estheticize U.S. debt obligations and sell the resulting product on the art market. . .
Mar. 10, 2010
POUND FOR POUND by Charlie Finch
Remembering Omar Shakespear Pound, putative son of poet Ezra Pound.
Mar. 5, 2010
WHO IS DAKIS JOANNOU? by Charlie Finch
A look at the business dealings of the Greek supercollector.
Mar. 2, 2010
A BRUCELLANY by Charlie Finch
A down-and-dirty guide to Brucennial value, literally.
Mar. 1, 2010
HEADLESS HIRST by Charlie Finch
Damien Hirst declares an "End of an Era."
Feb. 25, 2010
LUMPY GRAVY by Charlie Finch
William Kentridge and the second coming of Julius Knipfl.
Feb. 23, 2010
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN by Charlie Finch
A few good words for the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
Feb. 22, 2010
BRICKTOP by Charlie Finch
Derrick Adams throws down a gauntlet of taboo.
Feb. 19, 2010
OBJECT LESSONS by Charlie Finch
Out at Alexander and Bonin, Anna Kustera and David Zwirner galleries.
Feb. 17, 2010
JUICE AT THE BRUCE by Charlie Finch
Get on board for the Bruce High Quality Foundation "Art Rescue Vehicle"
Feb. 12, 2010
BAIT AND SWITCH by Charlie Finch
Tax the rich to revitalize the (art) economy.
Feb. 8, 2010
CAGEY by Charlie Finch
Sterling Ruby’s "2Traps" and the cage esthetic.
Feb. 5, 2010
BLADE RUNNERS by Charlie Finch
Kiki Seror and the intertia of male microscopia.
Feb. 3, 2010
PURPLE HAZE by Charlie Finch
Irving Petlin and the deadly ambiguity of suffering.
Jan. 29, 2010
INTO THE RYE by Charlie Finch
J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010
Jan. 28, 2010
LES IS MORE by Charlie Finch
New paintings by Les Rogers, plus a note on Julian Schnabel.
Jan. 27, 2010
MASTERPIECE MAGIC by Charlie Finch
Inka Essenhigh’s "The Old New Age" at 303 Gallery.
Jan. 20, 2010
A LOST WORLD, FOUND by Charlie Finch
"The Lost World of Old Europe" at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
Jan. 19, 2010
JOY IN THE MORNING by Charlie Finch
Art has become a golden scarab on the mountain of life.
Jan. 6, 2010
MIX AND MATCH by Charlie Finch
A modest proposal regarding Urs Fischer, Gabriel Orozco and our leading art critics.
Jan. 5, 2010
ON TARGET by Charlie Finch
Kenneth Noland, 1924-2010.
Dec. 18, 2009
CHRIS MASS TIME by Charlie Finch
Watching painter Chris Martin talk to students, via YouTube.
Dec. 16, 2009
ZAHM BAM! by Charlie Finch
Olivier Zahm’s perve party from the city of light.
Dec. 10, 2009
THE COMMANDER by Charlie Finch
Thomas Hoving, 1931-2009.
Dec. 7, 2009
GUSTON’S FINGER PUPPETS by Charlie Finch
Philip Guston’s "Small Oils on Panel, 1969-1973" at McKee Gallery.
Dec. 3, 2009
ARTYRDOM by Charlie Finch
Does the marginalization of fine art have something to do with the fakeness of its transgressions?
Nov. 23, 2009
ATMOSPHERE by Charlie Finch
"Cold Water" at La Mama Galleria and Lucio Pozzi at Creon Gallery.
Nov. 17, 2009
SMALL BEER by Charlie Finch
The conflicts of interest in l’Affaire Joannou are all too familiar.
Nov. 10, 2009
THE UNFORBIDDEN by Charlie Finch
Richard Hell, Brigitte Engler and some other guy at Bowman/Bloom Gallery in the East Village.
Nov. 9, 2009
A WRINKLE IN TIME by Charlie Finch
Silvia Sleigh’s portraits of art-world notables from the 1960s and ’70s.
Nov. 4, 2009
TUNA FISCH by Charlie Finch
Andy Warhol’s
Tunafish Disaster meets Urs Fischer at the New Museum.
Nov. 2, 2009
THE ARTFUL DIMAGGIO by Charlie Finch
Eva Lake’s collage of Joe Dimaggio at Cinders Gallery provokes thoughts of the legendary baseballer.
Oct. 30, 2009
SHADOW MAN by Charlie Finch
Harlem Renaissance photographer Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009.
Oct. 22, 2009
KIMONO MASTER
by Charlie Finch
Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design" at Japan Society Gallery
Oct. 20, 2009
THE FIERY FOREST
by Charlie Finch
An environment worth watching by Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen.
Oct. 15, 2009
A LACK ATTACK by Charlie Finch
Paintings by the legendary polysexual sybarite Stephen Lack.
Oct. 9, 2009
JOHNSON AND ART by Charlie Finch
Notes on the tercentenary of the first great modernist, Samuel Johnson.
Oct. 2, 2009
PHOTO SHOP by Charlie Finch
Jewels of MoMA’s new photo installation.
Sept. 29, 2009
THE BIG HURT by Charlie Finch
Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow and
The Hurt Locker .
Sept. 25, 2009
STILL A FRAUD by Charlie Finch
Deconstructing Dave Hickey.
Sept. 24, 2009
THE LONELY CROWD by Charlie Finch
Shutterbug Christopher Dawson captures the other side of public events.
Sept. 22, 2009
SOCKCUCKER BLUES by Charlie Finch
On Robert Frank’s
Cocksucker Blues.
Sept. 18, 2009
THE TYRANNY OF THE SMALL by Charlie Finch
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans talks about his traveling U.S. retrospective.
Sept. 15, 2009
DA DO RON RON by Charlie Finch
An art-celebrity-packed tribute to Mary Boone Gallery director Ron Warren.
Sept. 14, 2009
A SHOT OF WRY by Charlie Finch
Photographer Tim Davis and "The New Antiquity."
Sept. 11, 2009
MOANIN' WITH MONET by Charlie Finch
The Museum of Modern Art re-presents "Monet’s Water Lilies."
Sept. 9, 2009
COEFFICIENT by Charlie Finch
Wayne Coe’s sidewalk drawings.
Sept. 8, 2009
OCTOBER by Charlie Finch
Uli Edel's film
The Baader Meinhof Complex.
Sept. 3, 2009
MOTHER-IN-LAW by Charlie Finch
Anne Truitt at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Aug. 31, 2009
I LOVE SUSAN SILAS by Charlie Finch
The New York photographer has a show coming up.
Aug. 21, 2009
THE OTHER JACK by Charlie Finch
Jack Tworkov at UBS Art Gallery.
Aug. 17, 2009
NOUVEL RICHE by Charlie Finch
A city planning commission vignette, starring MoMA’s proposed skyscraper.
Aug. 13, 2009
THE AVANT-GARDE by Charlie Finch
Will there ever be an avant-garde again?
July 30, 2009
Design Time by Charlie Finch
"Ron Arad: No Discipline" at the Museum of Modern Art.
July 27, 2009
WE THREE by Charlie Finch
Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009.
July 23, 2009
THREE DEALERS by Charlie Finch
The High Line is the death knell for the Chelsea galley scene.
July 14, 2009
TOYS WILL BE TOYS by Charlie Finch
At Japan Society, a show of Japanese toy autos from the post-war years.
July 13, 2009
DASH IT by Charlie Finch
Dash Snow, 1981-2009
July 9, 2009
BLIND ON BLIND by Charlie Finch
A parable for the art recession.
July 7, 2009
BOVACIOUS by Charlie Finch
Carol Bove’s "Plants and Animals" at the Horticultural Society of New York.
June 29, 2009
MICHAEL AND JEFF by Charlie Finch
Childhood as a signifier of dread in fairy tales by Michael Jackson and Jeff Koons.
June 24, 2009
BAD TO THE BONE
by Charlie Finch
If you like the funnies, you’ll love James Ensor.
June 16, 2009
PEEING WITH BRENDAN by Charlie Finch
BARR, aka Brendan Fowler, performs at the New Museum.
June 11, 2009
HAROLD AND MAUDE
by Charlie Finch
Megumi Sasaki’s new documentary,
Herb & Dorothy.
June 9, 2009
NAUMAN AND JOHNS by Charlie Finch
Contrasting visions of despair from two celebrated contemporary artists.
June 5, 2009
CHRIST IN THE CAR by Charlie Finch
The esthetics of the auto in contemporary America.
June 4, 2009
INTO THE NIGHT by Charlie Finch
Yale’s disingenuous lawsuit over van Gogh’s
Night Cafe .
May 29, 2009
THE LADY HOSMER by Charlie Finch
Patricia Cronin’s homage to the 19th-century American sculptor Harriet Hosmer.
May 20, 2009
TWO COATS OF PAIN by Charlie Finch
A modest proposal to put downtown galleries in empty Madison Avenue storefronts.
May 15, 2009
BEING CHRISTINA by Charlie Finch
Andrew Wyeth’s
Christina’s World at the Museum of Modern Art.
May 8, 2009
GOT MIK? by Charlie Finch
The Museum of Modern Art presents films by Dutch artist Aernout Mik.
Apr. 29, 2009
OUT OF IRAQ by Charlie Finch
Artist Ahmed Alsoudani and the chaos of Iraq.
Apr. 23, 2009
DRAWN AND QUARTERED by Charlie Finch
"Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection" at the Museum of Modern Art.
Apr. 20, 2009
COIN OPERATOR by Charlie Finch
William Metcalf and Yale University’s coin collection.
Apr. 13, 2009
JESUS RESPONDS by Charlie Finch
"Younger than Jesus" at the New Museum.
Apr. 7, 2009
THE COMING ART BOOM by Charlie Finch
Market conditions are perfect for a resurgence in classic contemporary.
Apr. 6, 2009
JOHN JR. by Charlie Finch
An image of lost youth in John Waters’ "Rear Projection."
Mar. 31, 2009
LEVITTATION by Charlie Finch
Helen Levitt, 1913-2009.
Mar. 30, 2009
ANOTHER COUNTRY by Charlie Finch
New exhibitions by Michalene Thomas and William Villalongo.
Mar. 25, 2009
EVACUATION OF THE WEST by Charlie Finch
A downbeat look at the American West in MoMA’s "Into the Sunset."
Mar. 19, 2009
GRACELAND by Charlie Finch
Photographer Tanyth Berkeley and her model Grace.
Mar. 17, 2009
INCOMPLETE by Charlie Finch
Dana Schutz and the perils of history.
Mar. 16, 2009
CHA ON THIS! by Charlie Finch
Xavier Cha and the beauty factory.
Mar. 9, 2009
HOORAY FOR HAROLD! by Charlie Finch
New tales from Abraham Lincoln expert (and Met communications chief) Harold Holzer.
Mar. 5, 2009
BREAST MILK by Charlie Finch
The price of objectification in Kathleen Gilje’s portraits of women.
Mar. 3, 2009
NO SMILES AT MOMA by Charlie Finch
The museum stamps out a bit of free creativity.
Feb. 26, 2009
EPISTLE TO KIPPY by Charlie Finch
"Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" at the Museum of Modern Art.
Feb. 24, 2009
BROKEN GHOSTS by Charlie Finch
New work by Lisa Yuskavage and Susan Rothenberg.
Feb. 18, 2009
COPING WITH COPLANS by Charlie Finch
Revisiting the photographs of the late John Coplans.
Feb. 13, 2009
GROUNDHOG’S DIARY by Charlie Finch
Piero Manzoni, Imi Knoebel, Jeremy Earhart, Andrea Zittel, Kepler and Lipon, Janet Biggs, more.
Feb. 12, 2009
LADY COURAGE by Charlie Finch
Leila Hadley Luce, 1925-2009.
Feb. 11, 2009
THE SHOW OF THE SEASON by Charlie Finch
Tadashi Kawamata’s "Tree Huts" capture the recessionary zeitgeist.
Feb. 5, 2009
WEAPONS OF MAD DESTRUCTION by Charlie Finch
Native American warrior art and artifacts at the new John Molloy Gallery in Manhattan.
Feb. 3, 2009
PASCAL’S PUZZLES by Charlie Finch
Matt Johnson’s "Super System" inaugurates Taxter & Spengemann’s new gallery space.
Jan. 30, 2009
SCREWTUBE by Charlie Finch
Old corporate profits in the new democratic media.
Jan. 29, 2009
HAVING A RAVE UP! by Charlie Finch
Artist Mickalene Thomas curates "The Brand New Heavies" at Collette Blanchard Gallery on the Lower East Side.
Jan. 26, 2009
A BAD LIGHT SHOW by Charlie Finch
Robert Irwin’s "Red Drawing White Drawing Black Painting"
Jan. 22, 2009
COLLECTVISM WORKS! by Charlie Finch
Wake up from the bad-dream art world of star dealer hegemony!
Jan. 14, 2009
THE SPROUSE HOUSE by Charlie Finch
Thumbs down on the Stephen Sprouse revival.
Jan. 12, 2009
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES by Charlie Finch
A proposal for a new, more sane and generous art market.
Dec. 29, 2008
WOULD DUKE APPROVE? by Charlie Finch
On Robert Graham (1938-2008), and Duke Ellington.
Dec. 22, 2008
GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charlie Finch
Momentary encounters with the famous and renowned.
Dec. 17, 2008
LUST OR LIFE by Charlie Finch
Kiki Seror’s motifs of carnality.
Dec. 11, 2008
DUBIOUS DUMAS by Charlie Finch
Marlene Dumas’ painting is lugubrious and lazy.
Dec. 3, 2008
ROBERTA ON YOUTUBE by Charlie Finch
The celebrated
New York Times art critic tells all.
Nov. 18, 2008
A SILVER LINING by Charlie Finch
All-female sales could cure a down market.
Nov. 10, 2008
I AM A BERLINER! by Charlie Finch
Brigid Berlin, the last of the superstars.
Nov. 5, 2008
WHITE ON WHITE by Charlie Finch
Barack Obama rebukes William Eggleston.
Oct. 29, 2008
MIRÓ, MIRÓ ON by Charlie Finch
A hyperactive hodgepodge at MoMA reveals an anachronistic painter’s painter.
Oct. 23, 2008
BLACK LIGHT DISTRICT by Charlie Finch
Sensuous and reflective craft in "Japanese Postwar Photography"
Oct. 15, 2008
ANIMALISM by Charlie Finch
Alexander Calder is for kids.
Oct. 8, 2008
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR by Charlie Finch
Gargoylish paintings by Damon Johnson, moody photos by Sebastian Mlynarski.
Sept. 18, 2008
AN ALIEN VISION by Charlie Finch
"Van Gogh and the Colors of Night" at the Museum of Modern Art.
Sept. 17, 2008
SOPHIE AND ALAIN
by Charlie Finch
French Pop artist Alain Jacquet dies in New York at age 69.
Sept. 12, 2008
COMFORT AND JOY by Charlie Finch
New paintings by Damian Loeb and Isca Greenfield-Sanders.
Sept. 11, 2008
TSUNAMI TIME by Charlie Finch
A retreat to curatorial sensibility in the museum world.
Aug. 25, 2008
THINGS FALL APART by Charlie Finch
David Kramer’s new book-cum-artwork,
Snake Oil .
Aug. 20, 2008
ANGELS ON THE GROUND by Charlie Finch
The film
Beautiful Losers chronicles Alleged Gallery and the 1990s “Street Art” movement.
Aug. 15, 2008
LOVE AND LOSS by Charlie Finch
A review of Peter Schjeldahl’s new collection of art criticism,
Let’s See.
Aug. 12, 2008
THE EMPERORS OF ART by Charlie Finch
Hypermaterialism from Fifth Avenue to Dubai to Beijing.
Aug. 8, 2008
July 30, 2008
A KISS FOR KIRCHNER by Charlie Finch
"Kirchner and the Berlin Street" at the Museum of Modern Art.
July 25, 2008
BERKSHIRE IDLER by Charlie Finch
The state of the arts at Belvoir Terrace Camp in Lenox, Mass.
July 23, 2008
A SIGG JOKE by Charlie Finch
More thoughts on the case against the Olympics in China.
July 9, 2008
WATER FALLACIES by Charlie Finch
Public art and the public good.
July 8, 2008
UBIQUITOUS ART by Charlie Finch
The idea of art is everywhere these days.
July 2, 2008
AN IDLER’S DIARY by Charlie Finch
Julian Laverdiere, Doug Blau, Sherry Wong, Catherine Murphy, more.
June 27, 2008
OIL PAINTING by Charlie Finch
Abstract Expressionism in the sheikdom.
June 25, 2008
CHAOS THEORY by Charlie Finch
Buckminster Fuller, Paul McCarthy, and Salvador Dali’s "Painting and Film"
June 23, 2008
MUGGY UGLY by Charlie Finch
A new Dennis Oppenheim art project in Union Square Park definitely does not improve the summer weather.
June 13, 2008
AN IDLER’S DIARY by Charlie Finch
Wandering around SoHo and Chelsea at the beginning of summer.
June 10, 2008
LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN by Charlie Finch
Chris Burden’s
What My Dad Gave Me (2008) at Rockefeller Center.
May 28, 2008
GOODBYE JOHN by Charlie Finch
John Weber, 1932-2008.
May 23, 2008
LIGHT INDUSTRY by Charlie Finch
Whimsy and dignity in photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher.
May 20, 2008
THE EYES HAVE IT by Charlie Finch
Operatic lust in new paintings by Rosa Loy.
May 12, 2008
MISSION ABORTED by Charlie Finch
The nuances of Yale’s Aliza Shvarts controversy.
May 7, 2008
BACK AND FORTH by Charlie Finch
John Baldessari and Matt Mullican collaborate on "Pong" at Tracy Williams, Ltd.
May 5, 2008
PITCH PERFECT by Charlie Finch
Kentucky’s art-and-culture magazine makes provinciality a glam asset.
Apr. 24, 2008
CRASH TEST by Charlie Finch
Living dangerously with Anthony James.
Apr. 18, 2008
FEAR STRIKES OUT by Charlie Finch
Boycott the Olympics, and boycott contemporary Chinese art.
Apr. 8, 2008
THE THREAT OF LOVE by Charlie Finch
Walter Robinson puts the error back in eros.
Apr. 4, 2008
WHITE MEN CAN’T PAINT!
by Charlie Finch
Morgan Neville’s new film,
The Cool School , on the early Los Angeles art scene.
Mar. 31, 2008
HANGING AT THE HORTS’ by Charlie Finch
Talk of Marlene Dumas, Richard Tuttle and Jimmy Page
at Susan and Michael Hort’s private view during Armory weekend.
Mar. 26, 2008
A BROWN WORLD by Charlie Finch
Painter Deborah Brown captures natural New York.
Mar. 21, 2008
CHEERS! by Charlie Finch
A few words occasioned by Eduardo Sarabia’s
Salon Aleman at the Park Avenue Armory.
Mar. 19, 2008
BETWITCHED by Charlie Finch
New psychedelic allegories from Lane Twitchell.
Mar. 18, 2008
NOT SO WEI OUT by Charlie Finch
Ai Weiwei’s
Descending Light at Mary Boone Gallery.
Mar. 17, 2008
STARWALKERS by Charlie Finch
Naked wonder from Richard Dupont at Lever House.
Mar. 14, 2008
MY DINNER WITH SIMON by Charlie Finch
Veteran curator Simon Watson and the contemporary art banquet.
Mar. 11, 2008
DOOBY DOOBY DUBAI by Charlie Finch
A modest proposal for art in the Middle East.
Mar. 4, 2008
BIENNIAL FOR ONE by Charlie Finch
Go to Facebook for your own Whitbash 2008.
Feb. 27, 2008
GRIDLOCK by Charlie Finch
"Color Chart" at the Museum of Modern Art.
Feb. 26, 2008
CHILDHOOD’S END by Charlie Finch
Anna Craycroft, orphans and hope, and Obama as Manchild.
Feb. 22, 2008
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Charlie Finch
Painter Chris Martin provides Chelsea with its final triumph.
Feb. 22, 2008
DR. STRANGE by Charlie Finch
Baird Jones, 1954-2008.
Feb. 20, 2008
GET SMART by Charlie Finch
"Design and the Elastic Mind" at MoMA.
Feb. 19, 2008
LOVE FOR SALE
by Charlie Finch
Peeking at the market for Miroslav Tichy.
Feb. 14, 2008
BROAD MINDED by Charlie Finch
Swaping curatorial souls for the favors of the wealthy.
Feb. 11, 2008
THE WAY IT WAS by Charlie Finch
The modest beginnings of legendary dealer Richard Bellamy.
Feb. 7, 2008
FATHERS AND SONS
by Charlie Finch
At the Museum of Biblical Art, "The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son."
Feb. 6, 2008
LET THEM EAT WATER by Charlie Finch
Olafur Eliasson’s "Waterfalls" is just for the good of New Yorkers.
Feb. 4, 2008
A COSMIC JOKE
by Charlie Finch
Robert Smithson’s
Spiral Jetty was designed to be passive.
Jan. 28, 2008
CRITICAL MASS by Charlie Finch
The keys to the art-critical kingdom.
Jan. 22, 2008
LATE BLOOMER by Charlie Finch
Nobuhiro Ishihara’s symbolic creatures.
Jan. 18, 2008
CUT AND PASTE by Charlie Finch
"Fit to Print" at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
Jan. 17, 2008
REPETITIVE STRESS
by Charlie Finch
Zhang Peili provides a chilling look at the world’s oldest civiliation.
Jan. 14, 2008
PENNMANSHIP by Charlie Finch
Steely esthetic asceticism from Irving Penn.
Jan. 9, 2008
NAVAL GAZING by Charlie Finch
Julian Schnabel’s new "Navigation Drawings."
Dec. 12, 2007
CRAP ON CRAP by Charlie Finch
Lucian Freud’s inferior art.
Dec. 3, 2007
WEEKDAY UPDATE by Charlie Finch
A single masterpiece on view in New York’s Chelsea art district.
Nov. 28, 2007
WATTS UP
by Charlie Finch
Sober symbolism in new paintings by Ouattara Watts.
Nov. 26, 2007
SPECTACULAR SHOW by Charlie Finch
Symbols of transformation from Indian artist Bharti Kher.
Nov. 12, 2007
DUPED! by Charlie Finch
New homonculi from cybersculptor Richard Dupont.
Nov. 2, 2007
BLACK BOX by Charlie Finch
Douglas Gordon’s new burnt-Warhol-on-mirror works.
Nov. 1, 2007
A LOST OPPORTUNITY by Charlie Finch
Martin Puryear at the Museum of Modern Art.
Oct. 25, 2007
A SHOEBOX SHOW by Charlie Finch
Park Avenue Bank hosts a show of works by 20th-century women artists.
Oct. 18, 2007
CHINA DOLLARS by Charlie Finch
What’s behind the boom in Chinese contemporary?
Oct. 16, 2007
POPULAR PAINTINGS by Charlie Finch
"XXL: Size Matters" at the Hudson Valley Center.
Oct. 12, 2007
ART ABOUT LIFE by Charlie Finch
Lisa Yuskavage versus death.
Oct. 10, 2007
ART INFLAMES by Charlie Finch
Vandalizing Andres Serrano in Sweden.
Oct. 5, 2007
VOLUNTEER SLAVERY by Charlie Finch
Kara Walker and the injection of sex into horror.
Sept. 28, 2007
PRINCE CHARMING by Charlie Finch
Richard Prince, market Leviathan.
Sept. 27, 2007
GOODBYE GLENN by Charlie Finch
Hello Halbreich -- staff changes at the Museum of Modern Art.
Sept. 26, 2007
OLD SCHOOL by Charlie Finch
André Emmerich, 1924-2007
Sept. 25, 2007
LOOKING by Charlie Finch
When the eye is not invited in.
Sept. 21, 2007
FRANKINSCENSE by Charlie Finch
Natalie Frank’s new paintings are both disturbing and entrancing.
Sept. 19, 2007
THE TALENT
by Charlie Finch
Hollywood stars and art stars, both dim.
Sept. 12, 2007
MIXED MESSAGES by Charlie Finch
Marian Goodman Gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary.
Sept. 7, 2007
DARKNESS VISIBLE by Charlie Finch
On
Lisa Ruyter: One Million Postcards .
Sept. 5, 2007
The return of midcareer by Charlie Finch
A glance at the contemporary gallery offerings in New York this fall.
Aug. 23, 2007
ART OPPORTUNITIES by Charlie Finch
A change in market values means a change in art values.
Aug. 13, 2007
JUST BRUCE by Charlie Finch
Bruce Wolmer, 1948-2007, RIP.
Aug. 6, 2007
LIQUID SKIES by Charlie Finch
Will the hedge fund crisis sink the art market?
July 30, 2007
A BIZARRE COLLECTOR by Charlie Finch
A visit to Kykuit, the estate of the now-forgotten Nelson Rockefeller.
July 23, 2007
THEREMY by Charlie Finch
Remembering Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
July 12, 2007
ORWELL ON DALÍ by Charlie Finch
Is artistic freedom morally neutral?
July 7, 2007
FORM THING by Charlie Finch
The lesser offerings are the thing at Storm King Art Center.
June 27, 2007
STINGELESE by Charlie Finch
Rudolf Stingel’s graffiti art at the Whitney Museum.
June 18, 2007
SIMPLE THINGS by Charlie Finch
Seeking small moments of mildly enlightened distinction.
June 4, 2007
JERSEY TRANSIT by Charlie Finch
If you ride Jersey Transit, you don’t need Richard Serra.
May 17, 2007
REMEMBERING JONATHAN by Charlie Finch
A memorial for art scribe and Asia hand Jonathan Napack.
May 4, 2007
MURAKAMI AND THE MURPHYS by Charlie Finch
Parallel manifestations of Sara and Gerald Murphy and Takashi Murakami.
Apr. 26, 2007
PRINCE FEIGEN by Charlie Finch
The quattrocento meets Ab Ex in "Sublime Convergence" at Richard L. Feigen & Co.
Apr. 18, 2007
BITS AND PIECES by Charlie Finch
Rummaging through old Manhattan with photographer Kevin Landers.
Apr. 9, 2007
PECULIAR PEARLS by Charlie Finch
Dead calm in Philip Pearlstein’s paintings.
Mar. 27, 2007
RADICAL ETHIOPIA by Charlie Finch
The African Christ in Ethiopian art.
Mar. 22, 2007
SPECIAL OPS by Charlie Finch
Reticent retinal art, and more, on Madison Avenue.
Mar. 15, 2007
SPRING OASIS by Charlie Finch
The Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden.
Mar. 7, 2007
STUBBED by Charlie Finch
George Stubbs is as much an ironist as an avatar of the sublime.
Mar. 5, 2007
CINDERELLA by Charlie Finch
Loving Cindy Sherman as she swans into middle age.
Feb. 21, 2007
LOVE IN THE RUINS by Charlie Finch
Gordon Matta-Clark at the Whitney Museum.
Feb. 12, 2007
DILL VERSUS PRINCE by Charlie Finch
Lesley Dill and Richard Prince at the Neuberger Museum.
Feb. 9, 2007
THE GILDED CAGE by Charlie Finch
Imagining the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Jan. 10, 2007
TWO THIEVES by Charlie Finch
The bohemian and the ubercollector.
Jan. 2, 2007
THE WAY WE WERE by Charlie Finch
Remembering art as a part of life.
Dec. 14, 2006
THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO by Charlie Finch
Photographer Alix Smith, plus contemporary art, at the new Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan.
Dec. 6, 2006
TANIGUCHI’S REVENGE by Charlie Finch
The Museum of Modern Art unveils its new Education Building.
Nov. 14, 2006
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED by Charlie Finch
Who says New York needs a museum of contemporary art?
Oct. 19, 2006
MISSION CREEP by Charlie Finch
The new catchword for museoexecs.
Oct. 12, 2006
ONE GOOD PRINT by Charlie Finch
Prints and editions from Europe at MoMA.
Sept. 11, 2006
POOLS OF WONDER by Charlie Finch
Alchemy and a hint of claustrophobia in Isca Greenfield-Sanders visions of suburbia.
Aug. 7, 2006
A QUIRKY COLLECTOR by Charlie Finch
Museum founder Roy Neuberger was one of a kind.
Aug. 1, 2006
FEET OF CLAY by Charlie Finch
Since when does money create masterpieces?
July 14, 2006
BABES IN LOYLAND by Charlie Finch
German painter Rosa Loy’s female mythology.
June 19, 2006
The Great Picabia by Charlie Finch
Francis Picabia is the star of "Dada" at MoMA.
May 5, 2006
OLD FRIENDS by Charlie Finch
Notes on Jocelyn Hobbie, Lisa Ruyter and Kerri Scharlin.
Apr. 4, 2006
WORLD OF WOMEN by Charlie Finch
"Bearings: The Female Figure" at PS122 Gallery in Manhattan.
Mar. 10, 2006
STOP THE INSANITY! by Charlie Finch
Contemporary art’s disconnect from the real world.
Dec. 20, 2005
SIDESHOW BOB
by Charlie Finch
Robert Rauschenberg "Combines" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nov. 30, 2005
SOPHIE’S CHOICES
by Charlie Finch
New "Zebra Stripe Paintings" by Sophie Matisse.
Nov. 4, 2005
TIRED OF ART?
by Charlie Finch
In search of surprises in a complacent contemporary art world.
Oct. 20, 2005
ELIZABETHTOWN
by Charlie Finch
Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art.
Oct. 19, 2005
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
by Charlie Finch
Touring Chelsea on Saturday, looking to buy.
Buffalo Soldier
by Charlie Finch
"Extreme Abstraction" at the Albright-Knox.
May 18, 2005
INVISIBLE MAN
by Charlie Finch
Reading the secrets of Jasper Johns’ new "Catenary" series.
